Looking Back at 10 years of EdCamps Oh how the time flies, EdCamp Madison is turning 10 this year! It will be held Saturday, February 3rd at Sun Prairie West High School. Which can be found at 2850 Ironwood Drive in Sun Prairie Wisconsin from 8:30 am - 3:00 pm. Get more information and register here: https://sites.google.com/sunprairieschools.org/edcampmadwi/home I will always remember sitting in my first EdCamp opening session at the very first EdCamp Madison and having no clue what I was in for. So, I’d like to take this space to go over some of the basic rules of EdCamp. No One Will Pitch It for You EdCamps are unconferences. By this I mean that they have a blank slate of sessions for the day. There may be a few predetermined sessions, but ultimately the session topics are determined by attendees during the pitch & plan session that opens the day. If an idea gets pitched there will be a session on it. If a topic doesn’t get pitched, there won’t be a session on it. So, it i
An ePortfolio is a chance for a student to make the argument that they have mastered all the objectives in a course. In the climax of Oliver Stone’s film JFK, Jim Garrison sums up his entire case by providing pieces of evidence in the hope of finding Clay Shaw guilty of conspiracy to assassinate President Kennedy. Although the accuracy of many of the facts in the movie have been brought into question, there is no doubt that the entire closing argument sequence of the film is a masterclass in editing and screenwriting. Stone uses multiple film stocks to create the sense of cinema verite alongside of stocks that denote a subjective perspective. If you have never seen it or haven’t seen the section in a while, seek it out. I could probably teach an entire semester course on it. The ultimate goal of the ePortfolio in my class is to take the place of a traditional paper and pencil final exam. The portfolio has a home page and a separate page for each unit. The pur